Category: Musings

Use Your Questionnaire as a Filter In order to provide a quote, it is necessary to have information about a project. Clients will have a general idea of what they are looking for but understandably do not know everything that they should provide. This is where we come in. Ask the Right Questions As designers, Continue Reading »

Enabling Successful Projects As the need for web design continues to grow, so does the number of designers that rise to answer that call. We have noticed an increasing interest in the field of web design in recent years. So much so, in fact, that many designers are beginning to feel a bit overwhelmed at Continue Reading »

[View the Infographic Large] Should Designers Code? The age-old discussion has been making rounds again lately: “Should Designers Code?” It seems that in general, most are agreeing that designers should at least have an understanding of the the limitations of code in order to be able to design most effectively for the web. Andy Rutledge Continue Reading »

Want to know the secret to learning new things? The answer is really simple, but can be hard to grasp if you’re unable to challenge conventions and unlearn what you think you already know. The secret to learning new things can be summed up with a single word: Fail. Not as a noun or an Continue Reading »

Please note: This post is very in-depth, if you gloss over this post, you will miss the point. We’re Headed for a Touch World – Design Accordingly. We all know that Touch-based smartphones, like the iPhone and its imitators, are incredibly popular. The amount of new iPhones activated each day is mindblowing, even if you Continue Reading »

Navigate Dribbble Shots Faster In this screencast, I’m going to show you how to use BetterTouchTool to browse and like Dribbble shots faster. Download: BetterTouchTool Discuss: Dribbble Shot

Windows Background I’ve used Windows computers exclusively for the better part of 15 years. My entire family always used PCs and so did I. PCs broke and needed maintenance and when they did I fixed them. Whatever I didn’t know how to do I learned how to do. It was a part of life. So Continue Reading »

UPDATE: Google+ is now public! You can sign up without an invite. If you’re looking to get a Google Plus invite, we have some spare Google Plus invites to share! We’ll keep sending Google Plus invites until we run out – Google Plus invites are first come first served. If you don’t know what Google+ Continue Reading »

Please note: This is just an experiment. I do not know all of Dribbble’s goals, nor am I claiming this is a better layout than Dribbble’s existing site. There is likely some reason that I’m not aware of why Dribbble is using it’s existing layout and not this one or some other layout. To be Continue Reading »

The Web Design industry is one that is often misunderstood. For a client looking to hire a web design firm, the task can be quite daunting. Why is web design so expensive? Does price really make a difference? How do I know the web designer even knows what they’re doing? Why So Much Variation? Some Continue Reading »